Pressure mounts on Team Sky to find a victory

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Kiryienka chanced his arm as part of a 20-strong breakaway groupDoug Pensinger/Getty Images

Jeremy WhittleAnalysis

Last updated at 8:06PM, July 22 2014

Team Sky now have only five days to redeem their 2014 Tour de France campaign,
which lost its momentum as early as stage four when Chris Froome, the
defending champion, first crashed as the peloton rolled away from Le
Touquet.

The aftermath of Froome’s exit a day later — and even the talk of Richie Porte
as Sky’s ‘Plan B’ — seems a lifetime ago. Now, as the Tour enters its
crucial final phase, Dave Brailsford’s riders need to seize some reward for
their three weeks of effort.

Today, in the longest stage of the race, they tried again as the convoy